Tuesday, 25 April 2017

Surgeons remove pencil from boy's chest after freak accident almost kills him

A five-year-old boy was reportedly almost killed after a pencil impaled
his chest and narrowly missed puncturing a major artery in his heart.
The boy, whose name was not revealed, reportedly tripped while holding
the pencil when he fell on it.
His parents rushed him to Lianjiang People’s Hospital near their home in
South China’s Guangdong Province before medics advised that he be
transferred to Central People’s Hospital of Zhanjiang.Once there, surgeons worked to safely remove the
pencil, which was .2 inches away from causing a fatal injury.
Dai Ming, head of the department of cardiothoracic surgery, told Asia
Wire that the tip of the pencil pierced the boy’s superior vena cava.

Ming said that the boy’s parents acted heroically in seeking help rather than attempting to remove the pencil at home.